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TRAVEL ADVISORY

TRAVEL ADVISORY; Traveling With A Computer's Help

Published: March 6, 1994

Frequent fliers with personal computers can make their own travel arrangements with the O.A.G. Flightdisk Starter Kit and a year's subscription to a monthly series of disks containing North American flight information.

Users enter the itinerary -- departure and destination cities and dates -- into a form on the screen and are presented with a list of flight options: frequency, departure and arrival times and airports, airline codes and flight numbers, class of service and types of aircraft.

The software, which is available at many retail outlets for personal computers running Microsoft Windows, is a product of Micro lytics, of Pittsford, N.Y. The program has a suggested retail price of $39.95. The disks, which also include hotel, restaurant and other travel information, are $214 for 12.

The Flightdisk program gives access to two other, extra-cost O.A.G. services. For users with a fax machine, Flightfax provides up-to-the-minute fare and scheduling information; the Electronic Edition Menu lets users with a modem call up the O.A.G. electronic database of flight and travel information service. With the Electronic Edition, travelers can book flights from their computers. Certificates with the software offer a $50 discount on the disk subscription, five free faxes and 15 days of free use of the Electronic Edition. After that, Flightfaxes are $29 for 10; the Electronic Edition is, after a $25 hookup fee, 47 cents a minute during business days and hours, 17 cents a minute otherwise. If the user books a flight on the Electronic Edition, the minute fees are waived.

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